Thanks for the tips.
the &#xxx; chars are here to stay it seems, without an easy way to convert them into browser readble %xx (eg. "é" -> "%E9")
I have tried your suggestions already. ISO vs. UTF or output method doesn't change the output in any way, unfortunately. :(
The data gets read out of a DB where the names are stored binary (I think)
here a part of the script:
---snip---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:param name="pageheight">200</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="pagewidth">400</xsl:param>
<!-- this template replaces the newlines in the text parameter with <br/>
and outputs the parameter -->
<xsl:template name="break">
<xsl:param name="text" select="."/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($text, ' ')">
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="substring-before($text, ' ')"/>
<br/>
<xsl:call-template name="break">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,' ')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$text"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
.
.
.
<th align="left"><xsl:value-of select="/movieinfo/moviemetadata/field[@name='Actor']/@label"/></th>
...
<xsl:for-each select="cast/star">
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" class="value"><a href="http://us.imdb.com/Name?{person/lastname},+{person/firstname}"><xsl:apply-templates select="person"/></a></td>
<xsl:if test="character!=''">
<td class="value"><i><xsl:value-of select="character"/></i></td>
</xsl:if>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
---snip---
would it be possible to just use "substring-after" used in teh "break" template for all occurances of accented (&#xxx;) characters?
Thanks
Alex.
>From: "Thomas B. Passin" <TPASSIN@COMCAST.NET>
>To: Rick Jelliffe <RICKO@ALLETTE.COM.AU>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>Subject: Re: [xml-dev] problem with #&233; characters and such in URL
>Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:59:20 -0500
>
>[Rick Jelliffe]
>
>The problem is probably that your XSLT stylesheet is writing out UTF-8 while
>your
>browser is reading in those bytes as ISO8859-1.
>
>If your web application only has to cope with ISO8859-1, then the simplest
>thing
>is to specify that your XSLT processor generates 8859-1 rather than UTF-8,
>using
>xslt:output IIRC.
>
>If you want to cope with more characters using UTF-8, look at the following
> * make sure that the HTML code you generate has a meta tag which labels
>the
>charset (the encoding) you are using (HTML defaults to 8859-1)
>
>[Tom P]
>And if you are importing javascript, state the character encoding that the
>script will be in the
